Force Constancy and its Effect on Haptic Perception of Virtual Surfaces

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 89-105

  Choi, Seungmoon ^a   Walker, Laron ^a   Tan, HongZ ^a   Crittenden, Scott ^a   Reifenberger, Ron ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimentation; force constancy; Haptic rendering; psychophysics; surface topography; Theory; Verification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991799437     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1060581.1060584     Document Type: Article

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